Imagine a calendar as a slide rule, and you pretty much have the basic design right there. If you're too young to know what a slide rule is, you're missing something, buddy.
"Objects in calendar are closer than they appear"
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Found a kindred spirit
http://www.marco.org/480805355
“The ideal view would contain today’s events in great detail, then events from the next few days in less detail, then an overview of events in the next 3-5 weeks.”
And commentary on Marco
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1248496
and a link to a mockup
http://i43.tinypic.com/zu2m2d.png
A spiral calendar
http://www.theotherblog.com/Articles/2007/01/02/spiral-calendar/
the same complaint, that ” I always get a shock because something which is tomorrow was on the next page/month…argh! ”
A nice circular calendar too, for 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-b/4179587862/
One more calendar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redmonk/2247348454/
with a “fibonacci” design.